I debated against this and I am still totally disgusted with it. Oklahoma’s Governor and Legislature have basically refused to build storm shelters for our school children, leaving them wide open to be killed and maimed by the ravages of a killer tornado. There is a lot of political talk going on about the reasons, but what it comes down to is that the money that could have been used for this would come from the franchise tax, and the... Read more
Are we facing a new kind of McCarthyism that is run by mobs? Mozilla ran into a bit of chop because of the ouster of its high-profie CEO. Brendan Eich, the inventer of JavaScript and all-around tech icon, was forced to resign his position as CEO of Mozilla and his membership on the Mozilla Foundation board because it was discovered that he had made a completely legal donation of $1,000 to the Proposition 8 campaign in 2008. Mozilla... Read more
The idiots of the Westboro Baptist Church, “shagged tail, got in them cars and was leaving in a hurry,” after tangling with the outraged citizens of Moore Oklahoma. The Westboro group showed up at Moore, planning to picket with the message that the death of innocent children when last year’s tornado hit their school was “God’s judgement.” Several hundred people, many of whom had lost their homes, friends and family members in the storm, were there to greet them. From... Read more
I wish I had a dime for every time someone has maliciously lied about me during my 18 years in office. I could retire the national debt. If I took every instance of people with an agenda in the culture wars who lied about things I’ve supposedly done or things I’ve supposedly said and wrote them each on a separate piece of paper and laid those papers end to end, I could make a trail of lies that would go... Read more
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me–and there was no one left to speak for me. Pastor Martin Niemoller Sister Jane Dominic Laurel is the latest victim... Read more
There’s a new blacklist. Its members are anyone who dares to oppose gay marriage, or gay behavior of any sort. The punishment, even for icons of the tech industry, is to have their careers deep-sixed; all in the name of “inclusiveness” and “tolerance.” We have reached the point that these very fine words, inclusiveness and tolerance, have become the tools of a new totalitarianism that strikes at freedom of expression, freedom of political action and freedom of religion for... Read more
Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich resigned from his position with Mozilla. He also resigned from his position as board member of the corporate foundation. The crime which forced his resignation? He donated $1,000 to the 2008 campaign to pass Proposition 8. Can you imagine if the shoe was on the other foot? What if, say, a Vice President at a Catholic school was asked to resign because he had “married” his male partner in direct violation of the contract he had... Read more
You’ve gotta hand it to big tobacco. They’re consistent. They never seem to come up with a product that doesn’t addict people, won’t make them sick, and that the manufacturers won’t lie about. I encounter the lying part from my personal experiences with the debate over e-cigs in the Oklahoma legislature. We’ve had a two-year battle over attempts by big tobacco and their army of unbelievably highly-paid lobbyists to ram through a bill that would define e-cigs as a non-smoking... Read more
How do Catholic politicians come to the conclusion that it’s A-Ok for them to vote, speak and advocate for abortion? How do Catholic politicians decide that it’s not a big deal for them to vote for discriminatory laws against whole swaths of humanity? How do Catholic politicians develop the belief that they can vote and speak for the HHS Mandate and not be attacking their own Church? How on earth do Catholic politicians come to believe that, even though... Read more
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